Katherine Dunn Quotes
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I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
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I still have a young attitude.
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I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.
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In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.
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My dad doesn't hug me enough!
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But I could also start F1 or rallying. I love rallying much more.
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I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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I'm not trying to be a star on TV. I am who I am, which I hope comes out. I have a little bit of a different sense than most people know, and it takes a while to get used to it.
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These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.
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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
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It goes way, way back when we were under Sweden's rule. We always think they are better than us. We played against them so often for so many years. Every country has one opponent they want to beat and for us, it's Sweden.
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It's nerve wracking being in the stadium with so many people supporting.
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I don't want anyone as president who promises to take care of me. I may be stupid, but I want a chance to try to be a grown-up and take care of my family.
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Sit back picture yourself swooping up a shell of purple with foam crests of crystal drops soft nigh they fall unto the sea of morning creep-very-softly mist...and then sort of cascade tinkley-bell like (must I take you by the hand, every so slowly type) and then conglomerate suddenly into a peal of silver vibrant uncomprehendingly, blood singingly, joyously resoundingbells....By my faith if this be insanity, then for the love of God permit me to remain insane.
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Ever since I heard you is got a million dollars I notice you is fraught with perspicacity.
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Honestly, I don't have time for a lot of TV. And it's unfortunate, because I love TV.
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All history consists of successive excursions from a single starting-point, to which man returns again and again to organize yet another search for a durable scale of values.
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I thought that was actually kind of boring, that search for perfection.
